Timothy Alborn was chair of the History Department at Lehman College from 2005 until 2009 when he became Dean of Arts and Humanities, a position he served in until 2012. Alborn also teaches at the CUNY Graduate Center, both in the History Department and the Masters of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS) program. Before coming to Lehman, Alborn taught for eight years in the History and Social Studies Departments at Harvard (with a brief sojourn at the University of Puget Sound in the Fall of 1998). He holds a BA and Ph.D. from Harvard in the History of Science

Ellis Avery is the author of two novels, a memoir, and a book of poetry. Her most recent novel, The Last Nude (Riverhead 2012) was inspired by the Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka and is set in 1920s Paris. She teaches fiction writing at Columbia University and lives in New York City. Website: ellisavery.com.